Following the recent onslaught by bandits and terrorists in several communities in Niger State, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, has demanded that the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari adjust the country’s security strategy.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Mr Bello as saying, “with the recent turn of events in the acts of banditry, there was an urgent need for total overhauling of the strategy of the security apparatus.”

Meanwhile, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje, in Minna on Saturday, Mr Bello condemned the abduction of the Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Transport, Ibrahim Musa and his son, and also the murder of villagers by bandits.

The permanent secretary was said to have gone to Zungeru for a wedding ceremony on Friday, and was abducted alongside his son by gunmen.

Mr Bello also decried the barbaric and atrocious acts of bandits in Shiroro and Munya Local Government Areas, where scores of villagers were slaughtered and burnt while others abducted, food barns and houses razed.

Peoples Gazette had reported how five hundred communities, domiciled in eight political wards in Niger state, are currently under the command of Boko Haram terrorists who have dislodged the Nigerian civil authority.

Suleiman Chikuba, the chairman of Shiroro Local Government Area, told reporters on Friday that eight wards, including Manta, Gurmana, Bassa-Kokki, Allawa, Kurebe, Kushaka, Kwati and Chukumba, have been taken over by the insurgents.

Currently, the insurgents have reportedly threatened to take over Shiroro Hydro Power Station, one of Nigeria’s largest power infrastructure.

(NAN)